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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to or characteristic of mysticism;
- Example: "mystical religion"
[syn: mystic, mystical]

2. relating to or resembling mysticism;
- Example: "mystical intuition"
- Example: "mystical theories about the securities market"
[syn: mystic, mystical]

3. having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding;
- Example: "mysterious symbols"
- Example: "the mystical style of Blake"
- Example: "occult lore"
- Example: "the secret learning of the ancients"
[syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mystic \Mys"tic\, Mystical \Mys"tic*al\, a. [L. mysticus, Gr. ?
   belonging to secret rites, from ? one initiated: cf. F.
   mystique. See 1st Mystery, Misty.]
   1. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human
      understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.
      [1913 Webster]

            Heaven's numerous hierarchy span
            The mystic gulf from God to man.      --Emerson.
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            God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.
                                                  --Hooker.
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   2. Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret
      meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance;
      mystic Babylon.
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            Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness
            inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical
      explanations; -- contrasted to logical, rational,
      analytical.
      [WordNet 1.5] -- Mys"tic*al*ly, adv. --
      Mys"tic*al*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mystical
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical
           religion" [syn: mystic, mystical]
    2: relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition";
       "mystical theories about the securities market" [syn:
       mystic, mystical]
    3: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to
       the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious
       symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the
       secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious,
       mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

73 Moby Thesaurus words for "mystical":
   absolute, abysmal, allegorical, anagogic, arcane,
   between the lines, cabalic, cabalistic, cabbalistic, categorical,
   clandestine, concealed, covert, cryptic, deep, delitescent, divine,
   dormant, enwrapped in mystery, epiphanic, esoteric, furtive,
   hibernating, hidden, hole-and-corner, holy, hugger-mugger,
   hush-hush, indefinable, ineffable, inexplicable, inextricable,
   insoluble, insolvable, latent, lurking, metaphysic, miraculous,
   muffled, mysterious, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult,
   possible, potential, preternatural, private, profound, sacred,
   secret, sleeping, sneak, spiritual, stealthy, submerged,
   supernatural, supranatural, symbolical, theosophical, theosophist,
   ultimate, unaccountable, undefinable, under the surface,
   underlying, unexplainable, uninterpretable, unmanifested,
   unrevealed, unsolvable, veiled, virtual